Theorists
Commonly associated with dogs.
Who is Pavlov?
Growth that occurs in children.
What is Human Growth Development?
The ability to form and maintain relationships.
What is social development?
Children learn through observation.
What is the social learning theory?
A natural response or reaction to an event.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Commonly associated with rats.
Who is Skinner?
Development that involves the small muscles of hands and fingers.
What is fine motor development?
The method and practices of a teacher.
What is pedagogy?
The idea that there is some mental need that you are working on in each stage of life that you either solve positively or negatively.
What are Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?
An event that leads to a trained response or reaction.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
Commonly associated with the bobo doll.
Who is Bandura?
Development that involves the improvement of skills using the large muscles in the legs and arms.
What is gross motor development?
The idea that development tends to proceed from the head downwards
What is the cephalocaudal principle?
The dilemma of not know what is right or wrong.
What is the Heinz dilemma?
The idea that behaviors are shaped by their consequences, which can be either punishing or reinforcing.
What is Skinner's theory of operant conditioning?
Specializes in moral and social development.
Who is Kohlberg?
How different outside things impact impact people's genes (nature vs nurture).
What is epigenetics?
The idea that development proceeds from the center of the body outwards.
What is the proximodistal principle?
Includes the preconventional, conventional, and post conventional stages of a moral dilemma.
What are Kholberg's stages of moral development?
The distance between things you can do on your own and things you cannot.
What is Vygotsky's zone of proximal development?
Believes that interactions with a more knowledgeable other helps you learn better.
Who is Vygotsky?
An idea that is proposed, researched, and accepted as an explanation.
What is a theory?
The study of how people's thinking, understanding, and problem solving skills grow and change from infancy through adulthood.
What is cognitive-psychosocial development?
Includes a pyramid with the levels of physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Theory that involves the sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages.
What are Piaget's 4 stages of Cognitive Development?